A few things I've learned while living in Arkansas...

[Dennis Peacock]

Things I Have Learned from Living in ARKANSAS:

Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Arkansas.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Arkansas plus a couple no one's seen before.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
Onced and twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
People actually grow and eat okra.
There is no such thing as "lunch." There is only dinner and then there is supper.
Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two.
We do like a little tea with our sugar!
Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
You measure distance in minutes.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
"Fix" is a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store."
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked..
You know what a "DAWG" is.
You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car.
There are only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."
A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.
A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop ... it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you want?"
Fried catfish is the other white meat.
We don't need no stinking driver's ed .... if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.

[Tom Godley]

Funny ........... I needed a laugh today :)

[Pat Germain]

Those apply to Oklahoma as well! (I went to high school near Stillwater and my kinfolk still live there.) Other local Okey things I've observed over the years:

- The term "Do what?" isn't asking what you want me to do. It means, "Sorry, what did you say?"

- He is never "Hank Williams Jr". He is "Bocephus"

- Will Rogers should be on Mount Rushmore

- You commute to work 100 miles, each way, alone, in an F-350 supercab duely pickup with a fifth wheel accessory in the bed

- You own 100 acres with three oil wells, but you don't own the mineral rights

- In the local high school, all the guys are still in FFA and all the girls are still in FHA

- Your high school still offers "Ag" as an elective

- All the guys, who are in FFA and where the blue corduroy jacket, also carry "Ag plars" on their belts. (The pliers they tell you to use in Ag class.)

- Your high school is so small, almost any guy who wants to can play on the football team or the basketball team. Everyone does play on the baseball team

- All your teachers attended the same schools you did

- You consider California to be another country. (And Californians to be from another planet!)

- You just can't understand why any human being anywhere would want to live in New York City

- You've never seriously considered living in a "stick-built house"

- It's still cool to be a Boy Scout

- You've heard of the Rockies, but know they can't be any bigger or prettier than the Ozarks

[Scott Shepherd]

Maybe it's just me, but is anyone else looking at those lists and thinking "So, what's the problem?" :D

Didn't see a bad thing on the lists.

Dennis, have you also noticed the difference in how car horns are used? Not paying attention when your light turns green? There's a good chance you'll sit until it turns red with nothing happening. Worst case might be a quick little "toot". A far cry from up north where if you are a millisecond too late in going, they hold the horn down.

[Pat Germain]

A far cry from up north where if you are a millisecond too late in going, they hold the horn down.

Indeed. The second fastest thing in the universe, after light, is the guy behind you who can pull his finger out of his nose and mash on the horn the instant the light turns green.

[Dennis Peacock]

Indeed. The second fastest thing in the universe, after light, is the guy behind you who can pull his finger out of his nose and mash on the horn the instant the light turns green.

Oh man...I got to witness that 3 times when I went to Philly for work. The light changes to green and horns start going off everywhere. Them folks is plumb crazy up there. Saw 3 trees within 5 square miles and more concrete and steel than what's in the entire state of Arkansas.

[Dennis Peacock]

Maybe it's just me, but is anyone else looking at those lists and thinking "So, what's the problem?" :D

Didn't see a bad thing on the lists.

Dennis, have you also noticed the difference in how car horns are used? Not paying attention when your light turns green? There's a good chance you'll sit until it turns red with nothing happening. Worst case might be a quick little "toot". A far cry from up north where if you are a millisecond too late in going, they hold the horn down.

Hey Scott.....
The same list applies to Virginny folk ya know. ;)

[Belinda Barfield]

Maybe it's just me, but is anyone else looking at those lists and thinking "So, what's the problem?" :D


Surely not me! All those are true in Georgie with one exception. We grow and eat "Okry". I still give directions in minutes. :o

Speaking of soda pop, a friend's daughter early on was confused about which was Coca-Cola and which was Kool-aid. (sp? - it's been a while) Being the bright southern child that she is, she just asked for "Coca-laid".

[Neal Clayton]

I can vouch for the arkansas since i live in little rock now, but the new orleans version seems to be missing, since i'm from there originally..



there are no garden hoses or water hoses, it's a hose pipe
there are no plastic cups or disposable cups there are only "go cups"
there's no need to refer to individuals in another person's family, "how's your mama 'n them" gets everyone in one statement
you don't stop by someone's house, you pass by someone's house
for that matter nothing is located "at" a place, it's "by" a place ("i think i left my wallet by your mama's house when i passed by and had coffee, bring it by my house when ya get a chance")
there are no tarps or tarpaulins, it's tarpoleon (part of the napoleonic code i think)
there is no spicy or mild, it's either "pepper" or "not too pepper"
it's perfectly normal to discuss where you plan to eat dinner, while eating lunch
a working car is optional, a working boat is basic life necessity
any small boat isn't called a "boat with an outboard motor" the whole thing is just an "outboard"
street names are completely optional, all directions can be given by landmarks that everyone should be familiar with. for instance the paint stripper i used to bring doors to isn't off of lafitte and jeff davis, he's the guy by the old brake tag station. if you don't know where the old brake tag station is, you're SOL
uptown is south of downtown, and midcity is north of them both
you cannot turn left on tulane avenue, ever
for that matter, tulane and airline are interchangeable, you should know that even if you've never been there, doesn't everyone?
disregard all those sheriff's cars on I-10, they've been sitting there empty for years to scare tourists into not speeding..."crap hang on a sec, state trooper got me, i'll call you back"
the proper following distance between you and the car in front of you is 18 inches, at most
casino isn't ca-si-no. it has two syllables, "cas-inuh"
what's wrong with a drive through daiquiri shop? nothing, that's what



i'm sure there are more that i'm forgetting

[Jim O'Dell]

Those apply to Oklahoma as well! (I went to high school near Stillwater and my kinfolk still live there.) Other local Okey things I've observed over the years: SNIP

Pat, you left out that if you were going to The City, there was only one place you were going. No matter what part of the state you live in, The City is Oklahoma City. Jim (who grew up in Ada, OK).

[Craig D Peltier]

I dont think the opossums are sleeping.:D

[Eddie Watkins]

Those apply to Oklahoma as well! (I went to high school near Stillwater and my kinfolk still live there.) Other local Okey things I've observed over the years:

- The term "Do what?" isn't asking what you want me to do. It means, "Sorry, what did you say?"

- He is never "Hank Williams Jr". He is "Bocephus"

- Will Rogers should be on Mount Rushmore

- You commute to work 100 miles, each way, alone, in an F-350 supercab duely pickup with a fifth wheel accessory in the bed

- You own 100 acres with three oil wells, but you don't own the mineral rights

- In the local high school, all the guys are still in FFA and all the girls are still in FHA

- Your high school still offers "Ag" as an elective

- All the guys, who are in FFA and where the blue corduroy jacket, also carry "Ag plars" on their belts. (The pliers they tell you to use in Ag class.)

- Your high school is so small, almost any guy who wants to can play on the football team or the basketball team. Everyone does play on the baseball team

- All your teachers attended the same schools you did

- You consider California to be another country. (And Californians to be from another planet!)

- You just can't understand why any human being anywhere would want to live in New York City

- You've never seriously considered living in a "stick-built house"

- It's still cool to be a Boy Scout

- You've heard of the Rockies, but know they can't be any bigger or prettier than the Ozarks

I don't get it. :confused: BTW, I'm an Eagle Scout.;)

I have been working on my geneology and what I have found is about 90% of the people in Oklahoma have ancestors that lived in Yell County, Arkansas at some point in their migration west.

[Art Mulder]

- You just can't understand why any human being anywhere would want to live in New York City

- You've never seriously considered living in a "stick-built house"


Shoot, Pat, people all over the place think that about NYC. And folks up here in Canada think the same thing. But we also think it about Toronto.

But I confess I don't get the other one. What do you build houses out of in Oklahoma?

[Eddie Watkins]

Shoot, Pat, people all over the place think that about NYC. And folks up here in Canada think the same thing. But we also think it about Toronto.

But I confess I don't get the other one. What do you build houses out of in Oklahoma?

Brick, Oklahoma is located right on top of huge mass of red clay. Makes great brick as long as you like some shade of red.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I dont think the opossums are sleeping.:D


Sure they are....but it's kind of permanent!

[Jim Kountz]

Dennis alot of those hold true in WV too, here are a couple more.

When asked "where did you get the new shoes" you say "up to the walmarts"
When speaking of some event in the AM you say "I go there of a morning"
To speak of your entire family you saw Mom-n-ems
If someone is acting crazy you say "smatterchew?"
To include yourself you say "iz drivin down the road"
When talkin of southerners and northerners its "us and them"
California is a totally separate country and only those crazy celebrities live there.
Texas is its own continent and no one from here wants to live there.
VA is the mother state
MD is full of people who cant drive
People from Maine talk funny
People from TN are always nice
Rebel flags make nice window drapes for the rear window of your truck
There is always something in season
I could probably do this all night, its alot of fun!!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

My favorites I heard after being in Mississippi less than 24 hours:

I was 22 and had been in the Army for 3 years before I found out "Damn Yankee" was two words.


How da like the "Damn Yankee" weather we're having?

[Mark Hix]

Dennis alot of those hold true in WV too, here are a couple more.

Texas is its own continent and no one from here wants to live there.



That's funny Jim, we think the same thing here.

[Steve Vaughn]

But y'all know how you can tell the toothbrush was invented in Arkansas don't ya?



If it was invented anywhere else it would've been called the teethbrush.

:D:D:D

Steve

[mark page]

I've been told this is what the dogs look like in Tennessee, but who know's, lol.

[CW McClellan]

An't Bill and Hillery from Arkansas ? :eek: :D